Chapter 119: Facing the Pirates

Pirates come ashore to harass only a few times a year, and they must not be in the same area, after all, there are many troops along the Daming coast, and it will be difficult to get out if they are blocked. The Daming coast is so long, the army guarding the coastal defense is not busy at all, the Daming coast is simply leakier than a sieve, as long as you don't commit crimes in the same area, the Ming army has no way at all.

The two teams went north and south along the coast, and half a month later, the team that went south came back with the news that Li Shucheng was very happy about—they met the warrior monks and lay disciples sent by Southern Shaolin to investigate.

"Well, the disciples of Southern Shaolin have taken action, and the disciples of Songshan Shaolin should also be dispatched. Li Shucheng said, "That's good, everyone collects firewood and the flame is high." Actually, Li Shucheng didn't know that Nan Shaolin had been doing it all these years. After all, Southern Shaolin is located in Fujian, and according to the rules of the rivers and lakes, Fujian is their sphere of influence. If there are pirates in Fujian, of course they will act to keep one side safe. It's just that I didn't pay attention to the investigation before, and it was too late to rush over after receiving the news, and I didn't meet a pirate landing once in two or three years, so I didn't put too much effort into it.

But now that Shaolin has a letter, Southern Shaolin is also happy that everyone has joined forces to patrol the coast, fight piracy and protect the people, so Southern Shaolin also sent a group of disciples to inspect the coast, and Southern Shaolin inspected the person led by the disciples. The Red Leaf Monk is in his thirties, but his kung fu is very good, especially higher than Dao Cheng, the first master among the four generations of Wudang disciples, and the Wudang disciples admire him very much when they talk about him.

Everyone is a young disciple, how can they not learn from each other after encountering it, although the Wudang disciples are good as a whole, but there is still a big gap between them and the Red Leaf Monk. Although the Red Leaf Monk is strong in martial arts, he does not look down on people, and the two sides get along happily.

"Red Leaf Monk?" Li Shucheng thought to himself, "Why does it sound a little familiar?" But he didn't care, according to what they said, this generation of Southern Shaolin has produced a great talent, and he may be able to make a difference in the future.

A few days later, the team that went north to investigate also returned, and they really met the disciples of the sect who also came, not only Shaolin disciples, but also disciples of Emei Huashan and other sects.

Shaolin and Wudang joined forces, of course, it can be said that various sects sent disciples to patrol the pirates.

There were more and more people in the back, and each faction was stationed in one section, dividing the disciples into two parts, one in the middle and the other in the parade to investigate.

"What's the matter?" a eunuch walked into the imperial study to make a report, and Emperor Hongwu, who was watching the recital, raised his head and asked.

"Your Majesty, the commander of the Jinyi Guard asks to see you. The eunuch knelt down respectfully.

"Let him in. Emperor Hongwu said.

After the commander of Jinyiwei made Mao Xiang enter the imperial study to pay homage, he handed over a secret book and said: "Your Majesty, Jinyiwei has found out that there have been changes in all factions in the rivers and lakes recently. ”

"What's going on?" asked Emperor Hongwu as he opened the tantric recital.

"The news that Jinyi Wei found out is that they sent their disciples to the coastal area to investigate the pirates, but the exact situation is still unclear. Mao Xiang said.

Recently, he has been proud, as the emperor's confidant, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, because he knows the emperor's mind and is wantonly implicated because of Hu Weiyong's case, he has greatly damaged the vitality of the Huaisi Group, and he has almost uprooted it.

Hu Weiyong is also looking for death, knowing that the emperor is the founding emperor, and his methods are clever and harsh, but he still places party henchmen all over the court, crowding out dissidents, and the posture seems to be about to overthrow the emperor. Sincerity Bo Liu Bowen resigned because of Hu Weiyong's exclusion, but even if he resigned, he didn't let him go, and sent someone to poison him. Mao Xiang knew the holy will very well, knew that the emperor was afraid of Hu Weiyong, and a rebel framed him, so he killed Hu Weiyong, and then began to implicate him. However, Mao Xiang did not stop there, his target was the former Prime Minister Li Shanchang, who had already retired to old age.

Although Li Shanchang has returned to his hometown, he is a former prime minister, with great prestige, and most importantly, he and Hu Weiyong are in-laws. If Li Shanchang is not taken down, he is afraid that there will be a recurrence in the future, after all, the emperor still trusts Li Shanchang very much.

In addition to Hu Weiyong's remaining party case, there is also the elimination of Mingjiao. The purpose of changing the Jinyi Guard from the pro-military governor's mansion was to eliminate Mingjiao. Over the years, most of the secret power of Jinyiwei has been investigating Mingjiao, and finally found an opportunity to eliminate Mingjiao in one fell swoop.

It is precisely because he eliminated the Ming Sect and uprooted the biggest hidden danger in the emperor's heart, so he won the emperor's trust, and it was easy to cut off Hu Weiyong's remaining party. However, if you want to bring down Li Shanchang, it is not a matter of time and a half. So, find something else to do. And cutting off the martial arts sect is also a good choice.

Emperor Hongwu looked at the twists and said: "Their action this time is the initiative of the Wudang faction and the Shaolin faction, in order to assist the army in guarding against pirates. Very well, the coast is long, and the army alone cannot defend it, and with their participation, the pirates can be detected in time. Some of the pirates are Japanese pirates, and some of these Japanese pirates are highly martial arts, and ordinary soldiers are helpless against them, and this part of the Japanese can be handed over to them to exterminate. "The existence of the rivers and lakes does not affect his rule over the empire for him, his attitude towards the rivers and lakes is that it doesn't matter, and now he can help exterminate the pirates, why not.

Seeing the emperor's attitude, Mao Xiang knew that the emperor did not want to exterminate the martial arts sect, so he extinguished his careful thoughts.

In fact, a strong emperor like Zhu Yuanzhang sometimes wants to bring the rivers and lakes that are not very subject to the rule of the imperial court into his management, but he also knows that this will definitely cause a big fight. The martial arts sect has existed for many years, but which one of them has not left a trail behind? When the Yuan court wanted to exterminate the Shaolin faction, didn't it let the Shaolin faction easily dodge? Moreover, there are many masters in the martial arts, and if they can't be exterminated, then the revenge will come violently. He had seen the skill of the sect advocate Wuji before, he wanted to break into the palace, no one could stop him, in addition, those masters who were extremely light and skillful, he was afraid that no one would find out when he touched his bed at night, how could he not be afraid of such a person?

He took action against Mingjiao, from penetrating the spies, attracting division, to finally exterminating it, it took more than 20 years, and in the end there were still some fish that slipped through the net. These hidden dangers have not been eliminated, how can they provoke other sects?

The disciples of each sect gathered along the coast, cruising and exploring, and after encountering each other, they would naturally learn and communicate, and after a period of time, they felt that they had made a lot of progress, and they were happy for a while.

Three months later, on this day, Li Shucheng and Jiang Mingyue were discussing the big neck disease, and a Wudang disciple came over and said anxiously: "Li Daxia, pirates are coming!"

"The pirates are coming? Okay, let's go see. Li Shucheng got up and said.

When he came to the place where the Wudang disciples lived, Li Shucheng asked, "Have you reported the news to the nearby army?"

"Informed. ”

"Alright, let's go. Li Shucheng said.

In order to better guard the coast, their garrison had been moved to the seashore, and the place where the pirates had landed was only eighty miles away.

When Li Shucheng and the others arrived, the pirates were attacking a village. The village was surrounded by a high wall, and was defended by a number of soldiers. This is a guard house, and the young and strong men in the village are the army.

Li Shucheng took a look, the pirates hadn't succeeded for a while, estimated it, and said: "There are not many masters among the pirates, you can divide half of them to help the village defend." Remember, if you can't do anything, then try to get the people out as much as possible. Of course, you also have to take care to protect yourselves. I took my other half to rob the pirates' ships and cut them off. ”

Li Shucheng led people to the seaside, and soon found the ship left by the pirates, Li Shucheng counted the pirates guarding the ship, and whispered: "You go into the water from the side and quietly swim over to deal with them." ”

The remaining Wudang disciples immediately took action, dived all the way to the sea, and came to the bottom of the boat to deal with their own targets.

The pirates left behind were not strong, and if they were strong, they would not stay, and the Wudang disciples in the water got up together, and the long sword in their hands slashed through the pirate's neck, quickly eliminating the pirates who stayed behind.

"Yes, I haven't trained you in vain. Li Shucheng nodded and said. During this time, Li Shucheng trained them on how to dive and rob boats, and their performance today is no worse than when they were trained.

Take the ship and sail it offshore, so that the pirates will not be able to get on the ship, but will be surrounded and exterminated.

In the village, a Wudang disciple who joined in threw the spears of the dead guards as javelins, and inserted two pirates who had just climbed the wall, and the pirates' bodies were carried down the wall, and then he drew his sword and slashed at the pirates who climbed the wall.

With the addition of more than a dozen Wudang disciples, the morale of the guards was greatly boosted, and everyone worked hard to kill the pirates.

The pirate attack was thwarted and retreated out of range of the bow and arrow.

"Thank you to the heroes of Wudang for coming to help!" Repelling the pirates, the guards came over to thank them. During this time, he had met Wudang disciples.

"Fighting piracy and protecting the territory and the people, as it should be. A Wudang disciple said.

"It's just that there are too few of you, and I'm afraid I can't keep it. Baihu said with a sigh. These pirates were determined to win, and the idea of fighting was to fight quickly, so they did not besiege the guard, but launched a fierce attack from one side, not afraid of the guard station to send news to invite reinforcements. Hundreds of households also know that when the news reaches the thousands of households, and thousands of households bring people to help, the hundred households may have been breached.

"We'll just have to hold out for half an hour at most. Another Wudang disciple said, "We notified the Thousand Households after we received the news, and now the reinforcements are probably already halfway there." ”

"Half an hour, that's great!" Baihu said happily as his eyes lit up when he heard this. Although there were three or four hundred pirates on the opposite side, they would definitely be able to hold it for half an hour.

At this time, the pirates on the opposite side were also discussing how to break through the guard as soon as possible. The main reason why they attacked the guard was to get weapons, many of the weapons in their hands had been used for many years, they were all damaged, and they wanted to replace them with new weapons.